The armed rebellion in Ukraine in February 2014 were preceded by all signs of the United States waging a "hybrid war," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in an interview released today. According to …

Russia, the European Union and Ukraine are planning to hold a trilateral meeting on gas in Berlin on July 17, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a statement. The Russian delegation will be led by the country's energy minister …

The situation with Orthodoxy in Ukraine today is a consequence of the split of the 1990s caused by the ambitions of the church and political leadership of the country, the employee of the news agency Vestnik Kavkaza, Ekaterina …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini met in Vienna today. The talks were held on the sidelines of a meeting of …

Vice-President of the EU Commission in charge of Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič has confirmed that the first round of trilateral talks of Ukraine, Russia and the European Union on long-term gas transit via Ukraine to …

Next week, NATO heads of state will hold a joint meeting with the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia Petro Poroshenko and Giorgi Margvelashvili, according to the statement published on the website of the …

The leaders of the EU countries made a political decision to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six months, a source in the EU Council said on the sidelines of the EU summit. "We had a very short discussion on Russia, …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU Ambassador to Russia Markus Ederer discussed relations between Moscow and Brussels, as well as regulation in Ukraine and Syria, during Thursday’s meeting, the …

Kira Muratova, one of the Russian-speaking world's most influential filmmakers, passes away. She was 83. Muratova died in Odessa, Ukraine, where she had lived and worked for many years, her husband, Yevgeny …

The first since last October NATO-Russia Council (NRC) convened today in Brussels. "The Council had an open exchange on several topics, including the situation in and around Ukraine, issues related to military activities, …

The NATO-Russia Council (NRC) convened today in Brussels. The meeting will discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine. It is the first time the council has met since NATO and many of its members expelled Russian diplomats following a …

Russian gas giant Gazprom said it was aware of actions by Ukrainian oil and gas firm Naftogaz to enforce an arbitration court ruling. Naftogaz said earlier today it had initiated the enforcement of a $2.6 billion award from the …

Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili Tuesday urged European leaders to slap sanctions on President Petro Poroshenko, whom he accused of violating his human rights by expelling him from the country three months ago, …

Russia does not take any retaliatory measures against Ukrainian journalists in retaliation for the persecution of Russian mass media in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday, TASS reported. …

Russia must be "crushed" by sanctions, just like the Soviet Union was destroyed by them at one time, George Tuka, Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons of Ukraine, …

The Russian Defense Ministry said that no new anti-aircraft missiles crossed the border to Ukraine since 1991, refuting the accusation that Russia was responsible for the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in 2014, Xinhua reported …

Ukraine's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take about a year, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, the correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza reports. "In …